Bodyguards shoot at photographers in Costa Rica

Two photographers reported being shot at by bodyguards
outside the home of Brazilian supermodel Giselle Bündchen in the western Costa
Rican city of Santa Teresa
de Cóbano on the afternoon of April 4, 2009, according to local and international news
reports. No one was injured.

Yuri Cortez, a Salvadoran photographer for Agence
France-Presse, was among dozens of journalists attempting to photograph
Bündchen's wedding to U.S. football player Tom Brady when he was approached
by a man who claimed to be a bodyguard for the supermodel, according to press
reports. The bodyguard tried to grab Cortez's camera and called two other men
to the scene before Cortez and Rolando Aviles, a photographer for the local
daily Al Día, got into their vehicle, AFP reported. The photographers told local reporters that they were followed by
at least one of the men who fired a gunshot, breaking the car's rear window.

The photographers filed a complaint with local police, who
said they were investigating the incident, reports in the international press
said. Brady's agent, Don Yee, said the couple's security personnel had not
reported a confrontation, according to The Associated Press.